The University of Ioannina (Greek:
Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, Panepistimio Ioanninon) is a
university lying in the plains 5 km southwest of Ioannina, Greece. The campus is linked to the town by Greek
National Road 5. It now hosts over 20,000 students in 17
faculties (2006). The university was founded in 1964, as a
department of the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki and became a university at 1970. There is a
prominent medical
school that performs research and provides doctors to the local
University Hospital.